capacities

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You are, thank Heaven, only puny war-mongerers, wrong, stupid, presumptuous, and equipped with very little more than an inane way of expressing your sagacities.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sicken of your daily sagacities which the next day prove to be follies.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

A man does not gather his sagacities in order to answer crookedly a direct challenge, unless there is some necessity.

From The Rough Road by Locke, William John

England, with its complications and its policies, became an empty vision to him; Sir Evelyn Baring, with his cautions and sagacities, hardly more than a tiresome name.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton

It was against the aristocracy, not against the people, that they directed their acute sagacities and unsparing energies.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius